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Manufacturers are developing more eco-friendly products and you will increasingly find them available as reload components. Kent/Gamebore recently developed a “photodegradable” wad, for instance; it is still plastic, but it incorporates properties that cause “accelerated breakdown.” Their Gamebore line has a 2-3/4-inch biodegradable varnished paper shell and a fiber shotcup. Kent’s Impact non-toxic shot is a tungsten matrix, which Kent says, flies “just like lead, only it is non-toxic.” This movement may, sooner or later, affect handloading in a giant way (It changed home photo developing enormously. Chemicals we used to simply pour down the drain are now known to be highly toxic!), but for the present, many options are available in plastic wads and shotshells.

Proper shell resizing is important with today’s close gun tolerances. The Super Sizer from MEC is a heavy-duty shell-sizer that is built-in to all new generation MEC presses.

At the base of the shell is the brass cup that stabilizes the hull and other components. Curiously, this “brass” cup is often not brass at all, but a lightweight steel alloy that is colored to look like brass.